I saw this monument walking to class one day, and realized how much history was contained in one small area. The monument is a memorial for the San Diego Sate University students whose lives were lost in the many wars over the 20th and early 21st century. The memorial monument also serves as a reminder of the wars and the history that corresponds with each. Most students just walk by this everyday, however if one were to stop and read it, one can reflect on the time periods and the history rooted within it.

In class this week, we discussed the Cold War, specifically what caused it to end. A climactic event that signified the end of the Cold War was the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

In November of 2013, my senior AP Government class took a field trip to the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley. At the Library, they have preserved a portion of the Berlin Wall that had collapsed, which I found very interesting to literally be in the presence of a piece of history.

This is my hack , it is the back of the Call of Duty game and as you may see, there is a small advice on the left side on the bottom that say that this content is only for people over 17 + .

In the beginning of this semester , Ms Zeiner was hacking Prof Blums lecture and talked about the explicit content of CD’s and movies.  This hack shows another form of explicit content that is only available for ” adults ” .

As I was sitting in a Starbucks I wondered how coffee became a big hit…well the note says that coffee only became a huge hit due to the fact that people had to switch from tea to coffee during the Boston Tea Party in 1773! Two Baristas were kind enough to take pictures and even add a cup that says xxxcoffee (:

Today I was walking through campus and saw a man photographing this picture of Charles Darwin in the middle of Campus. I decided to ask him what it was about, and he doing this because today is Charles Darwin’s birthday. Charles darwin was an english naturalist and geologist. He contributed a lot to the evolution theory. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARWIN! 

I was flipping through an old edition of Life Magazine from 1942 today when I noticed this advertisement for Camel cigarettes on the back. It tells the story of a woman, Peggy Lennox, who trained pilots for war during World War II. It reminded me of when we spoke in class about the position of women and other subjugated groups during and after World War II, and how they changed. I believe this ad shows the new national importance women gained during the war, yet it also shows the sexist ideas people still held about them. Note how the title expresses disbelief about a woman being able to do something that was traditionally thought to be a “man’s” job. In fact, later in the ad, it talks about how Peggy is able to do a “man-sized job.” While this ad was meant to show the value of women toward the war effort, it was more indicative of the sexist ideas people still held about them and that much more progress was needed in the battle for gender equality.

More specifically, it is a Bible, Cinema book, French book, Linguistics book, Stadistics book, Economy book, and of course, the HIST book. All of these were required for the classes I am taking and as I was reading I thought that w
hat Dr. Blum said about “everything having a history”. I found this very true, as in each book there is history seen by different lenses. Some with numbers, as in statistics. The economy book, sees it with history with periods of growth and depressions. The Bible sees history as events and religious momentums. The French book sees US history through the eyes of the French, and the English book talks about the “Unofficial History of America, from the Culture Jam”. History is in all my classes!  Continue reading “Hack 1” →